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Hmmmm. Interesting clip but seemed a little too pushy. I guess that's pretty common in pilots though. They've got to set up a lot of background. What is that called, "exposition"?I knew that Caprica City would be shown as a decadent place, but were they really supposed to be shooting and sacrificing people for real?

I too was not immediately clear when I heard of Caprica that these were scenes in a virtual world. They have eschewed much of the "look" most sci fi films have about virtual worlds and as such, maybe to some viewers they might think they're watching something that's "real".

That is why I kept wondering how it is there could be a skinjob 50 years before the fall of the colonies with Zoe A and so on...

Caprica has a lot of potential, but if they make it too much like "Earth, Bigger and Louder and Techier" (which is the mistake most near future sci fi makes) and don't remind us that this IS on a planet far away and so on, well then it won't sell.

Plus they keep saying "no space shots" but if they can't at least point out "o hai! we haz other planets" and that interplanetary travel is a daily reality for this society, then you lose a bit of what makes a Caprica series interesting - the idea that at one point there were TWELVE PLANETS people moved around to and fro and so on. Imagine what our lives would be like if we had 11 other planets to live on, etc.

I loved that whole traveling between worlds is now commonplace just from that clip in the miniseries. Though I'm not sure that travel would be that open seeing that it is a few years after the "Articles of Colonization" and in the script there is still a lot of tension and straight up hatred between peoples of other worlds. I think Caprica should show other worlds, but remember the time frame of the series everyone is still very xenophobic and I hope they cover that more in the series as well.

Thanks for clearing up the holoband stuff. I didn't catch that (maybe my crappy speakers).

I too look forward to trips to other colonies. I love the landscape around Vancouver but hope they come up with some new shots. I'm tired of watching TV shows and saying "Oh Stargate SG-I filmed there" or "Stargate Atlantis and BSG were there".

I'm not a fan of the actress playing Lacy's delivery of the scripted material, but Eric Stoltz seems spot on.

And I'm loving the visual departure from BStarG, especially in regards to the SMG that pops up on screen while they're discussing it. A great way to separate Caprica from Battlestar using asthetic rather than ignoring teh mythos.

I didn't enjoy the trailer for the series, though I loved the cocept. This scene gives me a lot more hope for the series; touching all sorts of buttons that I hadn't expected. This could be fantastic. A wonderful companion piece to BSG that will hopefully find new levels while deepening the impact of the show that spawned it. Really, really looking forward to this!

There is a character or two who "fly in" from Tauron...hopefully, they'll show them on their flights between the planets. I would like to see the cultures of the other planets - and they probably should show them since it is established that there is a current of bigotry flowing beneath Caprica.

There was probably terraforming involved. The RPG says that some are less hospitable than others and some are actually moons of gas giants.

The V-Club is different from a holodeck because "you" are actually a virtual avatar of yourself while there and it's all in cyberspace, whereas the holodeck projects an illusion around you. Not to mention the vast difference in what it's being used for, which is the really important thing.